When you play a 3,500 player freeroll the odds are against you, or anyone, finishing in the top 50.
I'm sure the player yesterday going all-in every hand went busted eventually. It was a stupid strategy. He gets the blinds until a player wakes up with a hand and then most likely he loses a huge stack of chips. You simply cannot win with that strategy. He happened to knock me out when I was a big favorite.
So these posts end up turning into bad beat woes, but really the attempt is to document what happened. I know there is an end to tournaments and after playing a bunch of hands I will most likey go out having a good hand. Ironically the one time I went all-in as an underdog I happened to hit the nut flush on the turn and turned into a big favorite, only to lose when the board paired on the river.
With so many clowns and careless aggressive players in these freerolls it is kind of a joke, a lottery more than anything else. I'm sure that is how Party likes it. The less skill involved in the game the better off Party will be.
Playing ring games for a long time I know there is no end to these games, the bad beats happen, but they are not final.
A tournament has a beginning and an end so that is what is harder to swallow. If I played 50 tournaments a day I would at least get some positive reinforcement occassionally - hopefully.
But the ring games go on with no end.
I won a little bit playing a few sit and go's yesterday and cashed out of Party.
Empire Poker is now on the Party platform and has a 40% reload bonus -http://www.empirepoker.com/offers/bonus_aprilreload.html so I might hit that up.
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Well, seems like a dumb strategy to me unless u have 10 zillion chips or more.
Good luck in the the 500K.
I understand going in with suited connectors, any pair, A-x, etc.
But this player I am talking about went all-in at least 15 times in a row. The time I caught him he had 7-9.
He probably had already qualified for the tournament and was just goofing around.
Or he was a maniac-idiot.
He was suited - 7-9 of clubs vs A-7 of diamonds. I win there I think almost 70% of the time.
But you are right even as a 70% favorite if I go up against him twice my odds are diminished greatly.
He had 40k in chips to my 8k.
I tried to take the guy one time and double up and I failed to win.
Now if a 9 doesn't come on the river I have 16k in chips and if he keeps going all in with his 32k I may do as I think you are suggesting - muck A-K and big pairs, except for Aces and Kings.
I didn't face that situation, but will keep it in mind for next time it comes up.
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